Photios (name)
Photios (Greek: Φώτιος) is a Greek name, latinized as Photius.
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It commonly refers to Saint Photios I of Constantinople (c. 810/820 – 893), an Eastern Orthodox scholar and Patriarch of Constantinople.
A modern diminutive variant is Fotis (Greek: Φώτης).
People with the name Photios or variants
- Saint Photius the Martyr, a Christian martyr under Emperor Diocletian (died 305)
- Photios (Emirate of Crete) (fl. 870s), Byzantine renegade and admiral of the Emirate of Crete
- Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1431)
- Photius II of Constantinople (1874–1935)
- Patriarch Photius of Alexandria (died 1925)
- Photios of Korytsa (1862–1906), Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Korçë
- Photis Kontoglou (1895–1965), Greek writer and iconographer
People with the name Fotis
- Fotis Kafatos (1940–2017), Greek biologist
- Fotis Kouvelis (born 1948), Greek lawyer and politician
- Fotios Vasilopoulos (born 1986), Greek basketball player
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